11-11-2006, 08:02 PM
[unimpressed] My quest toward a better way. I'm like MacFly. I've never tied, I just love the fishing with them. weird eh?
Muddlers are good in some quiet lakes that have an unseen spring feeding them. It's a fun fly to fish with. Short jerks.
But they either caught nothing or got tangled in something on the bottom.
A long slurry of Frog's eggs or slime is more common.
Curious about why a natural looking food source imitation was so un-functional, I tested a few Muddlers by casting them into shallow clear water where I could see the fly.
I'd cast out, lay the Rod down and go look at the fly.
I pretty much knew what I'd see. The Fly was upside down!
Trout that Slurp usually get hooked in the bottom lip, or side web.
With my Upside down Muddlers, I feel the tug, sometimes they just don't let go, and I think I have him, but usually not.
Muddlers are so good that Trout, usually found in bunches, will try to beat each other out of the Muddler. When one drops it, another will grab it.
But hooking them is tougher than making them interested.
I always wondered about making a couple of Whiskers for the Muddler, tapering back from under each side of his mouth that would function as keel weights so he'd land bottom side down.
These 'lead line whiskers' would also double as Hook guards to keep him from grabbing small sticks.
Another fly that's a hoot to fish with, but his very construction makes him a 'no show' at the Trout hanging, is the Deer Hair mouse.
He will roll from side to side and sometimes wind up with the hook up.
Fishing that roly poly mouse in moving water is too frustrating for me! Besides....moving water Trout seem to want smaller flies anyway.
Sometimes Trout don't care. They just gulp. I imagine Bass are the same way, I've never had the pleasure. (Maybe this year)
What if the Tyer made the Mouse's tail out of lead line, and attached the tail right above the Barb?
With his little hairy hiney tied all the way down to the Barb, the one Retarded Rainbow in the Lake might not notice....maybe?
Also the 'tail down' action might make him Bob up n' down front to back as you twitch him along?
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Muddlers are good in some quiet lakes that have an unseen spring feeding them. It's a fun fly to fish with. Short jerks.
But they either caught nothing or got tangled in something on the bottom.
A long slurry of Frog's eggs or slime is more common.
Curious about why a natural looking food source imitation was so un-functional, I tested a few Muddlers by casting them into shallow clear water where I could see the fly.
I'd cast out, lay the Rod down and go look at the fly.
I pretty much knew what I'd see. The Fly was upside down!
Trout that Slurp usually get hooked in the bottom lip, or side web.
With my Upside down Muddlers, I feel the tug, sometimes they just don't let go, and I think I have him, but usually not.
Muddlers are so good that Trout, usually found in bunches, will try to beat each other out of the Muddler. When one drops it, another will grab it.
But hooking them is tougher than making them interested.
I always wondered about making a couple of Whiskers for the Muddler, tapering back from under each side of his mouth that would function as keel weights so he'd land bottom side down.
These 'lead line whiskers' would also double as Hook guards to keep him from grabbing small sticks.
Another fly that's a hoot to fish with, but his very construction makes him a 'no show' at the Trout hanging, is the Deer Hair mouse.
He will roll from side to side and sometimes wind up with the hook up.
Fishing that roly poly mouse in moving water is too frustrating for me! Besides....moving water Trout seem to want smaller flies anyway.
Sometimes Trout don't care. They just gulp. I imagine Bass are the same way, I've never had the pleasure. (Maybe this year)
What if the Tyer made the Mouse's tail out of lead line, and attached the tail right above the Barb?
With his little hairy hiney tied all the way down to the Barb, the one Retarded Rainbow in the Lake might not notice....maybe?
Also the 'tail down' action might make him Bob up n' down front to back as you twitch him along?
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